A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 páginas |
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... whole collection has been presented to the noble Herbarium of Kew Gardens . The title chosen for my narrative was suggested by a circumstance which I may perhaps be pardoned for mentioning , as it forms one of many kind favours received ...
... whole collection has been presented to the noble Herbarium of Kew Gardens . The title chosen for my narrative was suggested by a circumstance which I may perhaps be pardoned for mentioning , as it forms one of many kind favours received ...
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... whole route . Kibuga ; the residence of the King of Uganda . Kiengo ; the name of a medicine - man or rain - maker who accompanied me to Uganda . Kamarasi ; the King of Unyoro . Kidi ; a nude race living on the Nile at 21 ° north ...
... whole route . Kibuga ; the residence of the King of Uganda . Kiengo ; the name of a medicine - man or rain - maker who accompanied me to Uganda . Kamarasi ; the King of Unyoro . Kidi ; a nude race living on the Nile at 21 ° north ...
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... whole tak- ing place in less time than I have taken in mentioning the fact . Oddly enough , the hero of the scene got a fortnight's salt - water grog for having been in some forbidden place when the accident occurred . During the night ...
... whole tak- ing place in less time than I have taken in mentioning the fact . Oddly enough , the hero of the scene got a fortnight's salt - water grog for having been in some forbidden place when the accident occurred . During the night ...
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... whole kit was put into loads of 50 and 60 lb. each , without lock or key , and the porters paraded up and down with them a whole day trying 24 CRIES OF " BOMAH " AND " POSHO .
... whole kit was put into loads of 50 and 60 lb. each , without lock or key , and the porters paraded up and down with them a whole day trying 24 CRIES OF " BOMAH " AND " POSHO .
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... whole camp ate heartily of the rhinoceros ; but the flesh , though sweet , requires very sharp teeth . Their young would seem to have great affection . Wounding a large female one night , I next day traced her spoor for four miles , and ...
... whole camp ate heartily of the rhinoceros ; but the flesh , though sweet , requires very sharp teeth . Their young would seem to have great affection . Wounding a large female one night , I next day traced her spoor for four miles , and ...
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A Walk Across Africa Or Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal Jam. Aug Grant Visualização integral - 1864 |
A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal James Augustus Grant Visualização integral - 1864 |
A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal James Augustus Grant Visualização integral - 1864 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Africa amongst animals antelope appeared Arab arms arrival asked bank bark-cloth beads beautiful Berber birds Blue Nile boat Bombay brought Budja called camels camp canoe Captain Speke carried cattle cloth colour covered cowries Crown Octavo dressed drums Edition Faloro feet four fowls Frij goats Gondokoro grain grass guns hands handsome head heard hills horns houses iron ivory journey Kamarasi Karague Karuma Falls Khartoom Kidi killed king lake leaves looked M'tessa Madi Manua Mariboo miles morning musquitoes natives never night Nile Nyanza party passed placed plantain plundered porters present race rain river rocks round Rumanika sand Seedees seen sent shot skin slaves sorghum spears stream sultan sweet potato tall told Toorkees traveller trees Turks tusks Uganda Unyamuezi Unyoro Victoria Nyanza village Waganda walked Wanyoro Watusi Wezee White Nile wild women wood yards Zanzibar